Richard Chen
Head Of Multimodal AI at AstraZeneca
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Chen is a Head of Multimodal AI with 11 years of experience building generative and agentic AI systems for pathology and precision medicine, now leading multimodal efforts at AstraZeneca after his startup Modella AI was acquired. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Biomedical Informatics and postdoctoral work at Brigham and Women's/Harvard—with hands-on product and engineering leadership from roles at Apple, Proscia, and MSR. His work spans self-supervised and cross-modal learning, synthetic environment generation for endoscopy, and scalable AI deployment for clinical workflows, reflecting a rare combination of clinical domain expertise and production ML. Based in Boston, he’s known for turning cutting-edge research into commercial impact, and for quietly specializing in context-aware AI that bridges image, text, and agentic behaviors in healthcare settings.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics at Harvard UniversityScience, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program, Science, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School
Github Skills (100)
high-resolution10
transcriptomics10
deep-learning10
computer-graphics10
vision-transformer10
prediction10
genomics10
cyclegan10
representation-learning10
multimodal10
pyramid10
self-supervised-learning10
computer-vision10
transfer-learning10
histopathology10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mahmoodlab/Patch-GCN
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
Context-Aware Survival Prediction using Patch-based Graph Convolutional Networks - MICCAI 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 11 months
histopathologygraph-basedpredictionmahmoodlabpathology
mahmoodlab/HIPT
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Hierarchical Image Pyramid Transformer - CVPR 2022 (Oral)
Contributions:83 commits, 2 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 months
image-pyramidhierarchicalhistopathologypretrained-weightsself-supervised-learning
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